relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …

Women enter retirement having spent fewer years in market work, earned less over their lifetimes, and worked in … many women end up with lower levels of retirement income in old age. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which … largely between nonmarried men and women. Multivariate models show that 85 percent of this retirement income gap can be …

the level of development, women's education, the expansion of the service sector, and discrimination. More recent …

In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and … should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … and 2001, we use control function (Heckit) methods to correct married women's conditional mean wages for selectivity and …

of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

Where social norms favor gender segregation, firms may find it costly to employ both men and women. If the costs of …

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we find that women are less likely than men to have access to any … young women are more likely to have access to specifically designated paid parental leave, even in part-time jobs. Both …

-defined population. Our results indicate that women have lower probabilities of promotion and expected promotion than do men but that …